Browsing Publications (Brac Institute of Governance and Development) by Subject "Agriculture"

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    • Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security: Evidence from Uganda 

      Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C; Sulaiman, Munshi (Wiley Online Library, 2018-04-23)
      We evaluate causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on technology adoption and food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary ...

    • Agricultural microcredit for tenant farmers: Evidence from a field experiment in Bangladesh 

      Hossain, Marup; Malek, Mohammad Abdul; Hossain, Md. Amzad; Reza, Md. Hasib; Ahmed, Md. Shakil (Wiley Online Library, 2018-10-26)
      We study the impact of an agricultural microcredit program on the livelihoods of small, marginal, and landless tenant farmers in Bangladesh based on a Randomized Control Trial (RCT). Twenty percent of eligible households ...

    • Moral hazard: Experimental evidence from tenancy contracts 

      Burchardi, Konrad B; Gulesci, Selim; Lerva, Benedetta; Sulaiman, Munshi (Oxford Academic, 2018)
      Agricultural productivity is particularly low in developing countries. Output-sharing rules that make farmers less-than-full residual claimants are seen as a potentially important driver of low agricultural productivity. ...